alt Hacker News> I've always hated fixup/typo/fix tests commits and toyed with having a CI check that enforced ci passing on each commit but this drops that need.
Can't you run your CI locally? I know it's not feasible for some codebase, but at least the linting, formatting, unit tests, some integration tests should be able to be done locally.
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steveklabnik • yesterday at 7:07 PM
You can't have mac/windows/linux/whatever all locally simultanously.
Not every project requires this, but for those that do, it's impossible.
Also, it is much harder to enforce "everyone must run each commit through the CI equivalent properly" than it is when it's on your forge.
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>Can't you run your CI locally?
If you mean automated tests and linters, sure.
Conceptually continuous integration is generally integrating 2+ different lineages of code together which is more common with multiple developers although I suppose it's becoming more relevant with agents creating a bunch of worktrees with different things.
In practice, CI has taken the same path as "DevOps Engineer" ie most people just mean "automated test server"
The opposite of CI is more-or-less merge windows or merge-fest like Linux where everyone mails in their changes and someone manually integrates.